No problem. Keep me posted if there is an issue. I’ve posted the instructions on my Blog as well, though raising concerns here is probably ideal. As I said I’m looking into making this a plugin, as I have been trying to minimize mucking around with Textpattern source as much as I can.

Thanks for getting back - sorry for the delay here. I’ve installed it as you describe but still no joy. I’m going to come back to it later this week and start again - will let you know how I get on.
Cheers, Gareth.

Finally got around to adding Bird Feeder to my Pepper collection and, thanks to Ramanan’s directions, the Feeds portion seems to work as expected. I can see the number of times I tested my RSS feed today.

What doesn’t appear to be working is Seeds. My understanding is that pane should list the articles I opened in my browser via my newsreader? That is, I saw the article listed in NetNewsWire and had NNW bring that page up in Safari. Is that correct?

I have been having nothing but problems with my feeds on TextPattern. One visit my news reader shows the feed having content, the next…nothing. The site has content, updated as of last night, but, today, the feeds are empty.

Even when my feed had content, the Seeds pane remained empty.

I’m in the process of moving to WordPress to see if feeds there work, but I’m running into problems importing my posts from my TextPattern database.

By replacing the lines that do appear, and redefining the BIRDFEED constant after the lines:

include txpath.'/publish/rss.php'; and include txpath.'/publish/atom.php';

the feeds stops working (bad), but the numbers in the Feeds pane do appear to increment correctly (good). Mint also does not recognize them as independent from the standard Textpatterns article feeds (bad), so it would appear that redefining the BIRDFEED constant is insufficient.

My PHP hackery skills pretty much end here, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

tag(doSpecial($url),'link').n. is unimportant; it’s used to format Textpattern Links. If you define the BIRDFEED constant with a unique name, and do the rest of the work outlined above, I don’t see why things wouldn’t work. What errors are you getting exactly from your comment feed?

—and how to define separate IDs for separate feeds? I mean: They are all running of the same .php file with appended parameters. I have four main feeds (for different sections), but all are generated trough the same file.

A bit more info: my atom and rss feeds display zero articles. This is true whether I copy over the 4.0.4 atom.php and rss.php files, or if I modify the new 4.0.5 versions (which do have some differences, but they aren’t significant from what I could tell).

I just sitting here with TXP 4.0.6 and had manage to change “rss.php” exactly as it’s told above. But then I come to “atom.php” I realised the problem Jez wrote above - the nonexisting line
“$e[‘link’] = ”;”
(and this is the same with TXP 4.0.5) instead I found the line
“$e[‘link’] = ”;”
at line 164 (not 160) and replaced that with the Birdfeed line in the manual above.